Growing up in the 70's

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I bet there's been one of these before but who remembers stuff about the 70's, looking back to me it was all a bit weird.

So some of my memories.

Mary Mungo and midge, the music in the lift. my orange space hopper, gridsy marbles and clackers.
Dehydrated potato, free milk you had to drink at school.
Playing out from after breakfast until dark or tea.

Loons & cheesecloth shirts.
Corona pop.
Purple swirly carpet and black plastic leather three piece suite.
Platform shoes.
Half mast trousers commonly known as bags or was that a West Midlands thing?
Brut men's aftershave, also worn by 15 year old girls, at least where I lived in the West Midlands.
Platform shoes (usually plastic).
Well here it is Merry Christmas everybodies having fun, Look to the future now it's only just begun etc etc etc

Orange and brown was definitely popular .

We had a brown bathroom suite, an orange Skoda and weird trippy swirly wall paper.

All if the above, and

Butterflies galore in the summer!

White dog poo.

Phone boxes with directories in them!

Playing Jacks!

Playing Elastics!

Freeman Hardy & Willis shoes.

The Wombles

Chilblains in the winter.

Pea souper fog!

Glorious, glorious sunshine filled school summer holidays!

Caramac Easter eggs

Concrete under swings so that if you fell off, it hurt!

Cheese Cutter in the park and other assorted 'dangerous' rides in the park.

Laying down on a roundabout and dropping a lolly stick and going round and round trying to pick it back up.

Funny faces ice cream.

Lolly gobble chocolate bomb

Yy to fuzzy felts and Worzel Gummidge.

Saturday night TV was The A Team and Jim'll Fix It

We weren't allowed to watch Tiswas.

Other favourite TV programmes were Heidi, Why Don't You?, Fingermouse, Button Moon, Huckleberry Finn, Mighty Mouse, HeMan and Cracker Jack

Bringing back lots of memories here

1/2p mojo sweets. a bag of monster munch for 7p. shops shut on sundays. power cuts. lots of manmade fibres (eurgh)

The Saturday wrestling with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks et al

Oh god I remember taping things from the charts on a Sunday night! Had this little red stereo with a tape deck in the middle and I knew those tapes inside out, including the squiggly bits where the buttons were being pressed down!

Spangles and big grape flavour bubblegum balls, PEK chewing gum, fizzy pop from the chippy, junket for tea, blancmange on a Sunday, mum drinking Cherry B, or a snowball, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep on the radio, David Soul's Silver Lady, Ain't Half Hot Mum on tv, sandwiches and tinned peaches with carnation milk on Sunday and a strawberry scented nightlight during the power outages, black and white tv, without a remote, wearing headscarves on my head tied at the back of my neck, elastics in the playground and skipping with a big rope held by someone at either side, whilst singing rhymes, the Monkees on tv, Morecombe and Wise!

I saw a 1974 advert on a nostalgia account i follow on Twitter. It was for a box of chocolates called Week End. Very unusual selection. Does anyone remember them.

I really hated that school milk...

I went off to boarding school in 1979 and the price of a first class stamp was around 12p I think...

You are right boaty baths were once a week! but I don't remember people being smelly! I remember when we got a shower installed, in the 80's. One bathroom, one toilet, for a family of five, and we were considered to be quite posh at that time....

ebony and ivory!! paul mc cartney and stevie w. the first record i ever bought.

no bar codes!!!

We had a big round wicker rug in the kitchen. Turqoise Blue carpet everywhere. No ones Mums seem to work then either.

Clackers
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Sunshine
Platform shoes
Handstands
Elastics
Marbles
Conkers
Go karts
Janet and John reading books
Daisy Chains
Miss World Game

Pacers!
Yes to Candlewick bedspreads. We used to pull the threads out, chew them and then throw them up to stick on the ceiling!
Power cuts.
Dad letting the choke out on the car.no seatbelts then Clunk Click,Every trip!
Riding bikes with no helmets
Answering the phone with just a 3 digit number - x 243.
Cremola foam
Measles
No central heating and ice on inside of windows
Cassettes
Roller skates with a wheel at each corner.

God yes, continental quilts! Our first ones were pink, shiny and flowery.

Don't remember Week End chocolates but I do remember Spartan Hard Centres - my Dad's favourite!

I think my parents just put me outside the pub with a bottle of pop and a bag of crisps.

I remember the ad for Milk Tray and "See the face you love light up with Terry's Allgold"....

Lots of good adverts on TV.

The Milk Tray man and the man sneaking down in the middle of the night to get R. White's lemonade out of the fridge.

Any time, any place, anywhere/There's a wonderful world you can share/It's the right one/It's the bright one/It's Martini

For Mash, Get Smash! 'They peel them with their metal knives!' Best advert ever.

Nuts, whole hazelnuts, ooh! Cadbury's take them and they cover them with chocolate...

Fab thread which is bringing it all back for me!

Hanging out with mates at the local phone box, pushing random buttons and getting Dial a Disc free.

Nylon sheets that went all bobbly at the feet end.

Radio Luxemburg listened to on a little tranny under the bedsheets when my mum thought I was asleep.

Mam saying 'grease yersen up if you're off out in that sunshine' and then slapping vaseline all over us. Cue fried kids.

Charlie Says safety adverts

We had a lava lamp that leaked.

When they leak they bloody STINK!

Travelling alone on the train with a little brother. No adult help.

No mobiles, GPS or train delays on a phone.

Perhaps it makes one self reliant?

strikes having to sit in the dark playing games with my mum, the heatwave of 76? Pams People on TOTP, charlies angles on the tv. 1/2p sweets we got 10p a week pocket money. Pippa dolls, we had an orange and brown lounge and my parents had a drinks cabinet in the sideboard, I remember the excitement when we had our phone put in but it was a party line so had to wait till next door were not using it before we could. not that us kids ever used the phone, we were allowed to answer it once we had memorised the number and had to answer with hello..11111.